WTF ?
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:56 am
Claiming to be 'two spirit' when you aren't is likely to cause some bent eagle feathers, it's much worse even than pretending to be a Native American to get into college (diversity fraud) and then also use the same false claim to benefit yourself for decades as a politician!Johnnie Jae aka The Beige Ball of Fury
johnniejae
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Sep 7, 2018
Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a non-native organizations like
2SpiritHealth misappropriating and colonizing the term two-spirit.
'Two Spirit' This Indigenous Gender Identity Goes Back Centuries
It’s much more than being queer and Native.
PERIOD! lol 5 'NOTs' + 1 worth!If you’re asking yourself what it means to identify as two-spirit, the first thing you should know is that it’s a term solely to be used by Native American and Indigenous people. Two-spirit people are essential to their communities, and their history is rich and nuanced. Using the term “two-spirit” as someone who isn’t Native or Indigenous is cultural appropriation, period.
Amazing and so esoteric... so What IS IT?As Otoe-Missouria and Choctaw journalist and activist Johnnie Jae tweeted, “If you are NOT Native…you are NOT Two-Spirit. If you are NOT Native…you do NOT get to claim Two-Spirit identity. You are NOT entitled to Two-Spirit Identity. The term Two-Spirit is not an umbrella term for LGBTQ identities.”
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— Johnnie Jae aka The Beige Ball of Fury (johnniejae) September 7, 2018
Although it was only formally adopted in 1990 at the third annual Native American/First Nations Gay and Lesbian American Conference in Winnipeg, Canada, the term “two-spirit” has roots that date back centuries. According to Jae, it’s a term used to “identify, reclaim, and revitalize very specific identities, histories, legacies, and power that goes far beyond just sexuality and gender identity for Indigenous peoples.”
... it is a Native-specific term that is used to signify gender and sexual orientation variance in First Nations (Canada) and Native Americans (USA)...Two-spirit’ is an addition, not a replacement, for Indigenous languages which may already have a term for gender and sexual orientation variance. ‘Two-spirit’ is a term created by and to be used only for Native people.
...Katherin Winnick, sex coach and writer, says a two-spirit person possesses two inner spirits that transcend gender binaries. They can be masculine-masculine, masculine-feminine, feminine-feminine, or feminine-masculine. Sometimes you will see the “2” of “two-spirit” in the term “LGBTQ2.” According to the Indian Health Service, in most tribes, two-spirit people were considered neither men nor women and occupied a “distinct, alternative gender status.”
“Two-spirit” is an umbrella term that encompasses all gender and sexual diversities outside the classic binary genders. The most appropriate gender identity to compare it to would be queer (which is also a generic umbrella term).
No kidding, who would of thought? /s
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